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Download or read book Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction written by J. Taylor-Batty and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study argues that modernist literature is characterised by a 'multilingual turn'. Examining the use of different languages in the fiction of a range of writers, including Lawrence, Richardson, Mansfield, Rhys, Joyce and Beckett, Taylor-Batty demonstrates the centrality of linguistic plurality to modernist forms of defamiliarisation.